Major-General Sir Philip Charles Palin KCMG CB (8 August 1864 – 22 January 1937) was an officer of the British Indian Army who served in frontier campaigns and then commanded British, Indian and South African troops in Egypt, Gallipoli and Palestine during World War I.

[2][3][4][5][6] Palin joined the 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment in Burma and saw active service in the latter stages of the Third Anglo-Burmese War.

[2][3][5][8] Having been promoted to major in 1904, Palin reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in April 1912,[9] and was appointed to command the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs.

[10] The brigade landed at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula where Palin and his Sikhs took part in the Second and Third Battles of Krithia.

'The result was that, though the 14th Sikhs on the right flank pushed on despite losses amounting to three-fourths of their effectives, the centre of the Brigade could make no headway'.

[2][12][13][14][15] In the subsequent attempt to capture Hill 60, the artillery preparation was again inadequate, casualties were very heavy, and the objective remained untaken.

[19] His brigade was stationed in defence of the Suez Canal, and in November 1916 he led out a column to drive off a Turkish detachment.

[22] In the summer of 1918, 75th Division joined General Sir Edmund Allenby's final offensive (the Battles of Megiddo).

[21] At the Battle of Sharon (19 September), 75th Division successfully assaulted Miske and the Turkish trench system around the village of Et Tire.

For this attack Palin also had under his command 'A' Squadron (Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry)[23] and 2nd Light Armoured Motor Battery, Machine Gun Corps, which he sent up with his chief of staff to outflank the village.

[23] After the end of the fighting on 19 September, Palin's 75th Division was left on salvage work and road repair until the Armistice with the Turks was signed on 31 October.

In March 1919 it returned to garrison duty in Egypt, where Palin became responsible for the Eastern Delta, which was renamed 75th Division Area.

[2][27] Shortly after taking up this command, he was appointed to chair a Commission of Inquiry into the Jerusalem riots that had occurred on 4–7 April 1920.